zeng yangyang wrote:
> Greetings. I use RealTek RTL8111B Gigabit LAN in ASUS P5PL2-E motherboard. And SL5.1 can not detect the hardware. I downloaded drivers from RealTek's official site, and it didn't work well, Actually, at first it can't be compiled successfully. Since r1000 has been added into SL5.1 x86_64, is there a plan that more drivers are included?
> 
> best wishes
> 

Did you try installing the r1000 driver in SL 5?
   yum install kernel-module-r1000-`uname -r`

I have that network card (I think) and it works fine.
   #lspci
   ...
   02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B 
PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
   ...

About putting in more drivers.  If people can get them to compile well outside 
the kernel, so we can put them in as a module, I'm not against putting them in.
They usually go into contrib first, and if they work well, and people need 
them, then we see about moving them into the release.
Please note that I said "people" and not "Troy".  Please don't send me a list 
of hardware that you want working expecting me to find drivers, figure out how 
to compile them, and then get them into the release.  This is a community, 
everyone has a chance to be a part of it.  Drivers get in much easier when the 
driver compiles nicely, comes from a source we can continue to check for 
updates, and even better, if they come already packaged in the kernel-module 
rpm format.
Troy
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